{"id":3439,"date":"2017-05-17T10:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T09:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/?p=3439"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T13:17:39","slug":"kent-up-to-22nd-in-the-guardian-university-guide-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/05\/17\/kent-up-to-22nd-in-the-guardian-university-guide-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent up to 22nd in the Guardian University Guide 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has also achieved a top 10 position in six subject areas, with a further 15 in the top 20.<\/p>\n<p>Kent has been ranked 22nd out of 121 HEIs in the 2018 Guardian University League Table. This represents a rise of one place since 2017 and underlines its position as a leading UK university.<\/p>\n<p>The key indicators of performance used by the Table include the National Student Survey (Teaching, Assessment and Feedback, Overall Satisfaction), student-staff ratios, expenditure per student and career prospects.<\/p>\n<p>The University has also achieved a top 10 position in 6 subject areas:<br \/>\n\uf04dDesign and Crafts (3rd)<br \/>\n\uf04dMedia and Film Studies (3rd)<br \/>\n\uf04dEnglish and Creative Writing (7th)<br \/>\n\uf04dPolitics (9th)<br \/>\n\uf04dArchitecture (10th)<br \/>\n\uf04dAnthropology (10th)<\/p>\n<p>Kent\u2019s top 20 subjects are:<br \/>\n\uf04dCriminology (11th)<br \/>\n\uf04dAmerican Studies (11th)<br \/>\n\uf04dSocial Policy and Administration (12th)<br \/>\n\uf04dHistory of Art (14th)<br \/>\n\uf04dClassics and Ancient History (14th)<br \/>\n\uf04dPsychology (14th)<br \/>\n\uf04dLaw (15th)<br \/>\n\uf04dArt (15th)<br \/>\n\uf04dEconomics (16th)<br \/>\n\uf04dSociology (16th)<br \/>\n\uf04dEngineering: Electronic and Electrical (17th)<br \/>\n\uf04dSocial Work (18th)<br \/>\n\uf04dReligious Studies and Theology (19th)<br \/>\n\uf04dPharmacy and Pharmacology (19th)<br \/>\n\uf04dJournalism, Publishing and Public Relations (19th)<\/p>\n<p>Kent recently doubled its presence in the annual QS World University Rankings by Subject and was ranked 85th in the 2017 International Student Table published by Times Higher Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Kent has also achieved a top 10 position in six subject areas, with a further 15 in the top 20. Kent has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/2017\/05\/17\/kent-up-to-22nd-in-the-guardian-university-guide-2018\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139963,872],"tags":[210815,124,139996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3439\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sspssr-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}